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Nov 18	answered	“Analysis on” vs. “analysis of”
Nov 18	answered	“Give your best” vs. “give of your best”
Nov 18	comment	“Give your best” vs. “give of your best” In the latter usage, of and from are synonymous: to give of one's best is to give from one's best. Give one's best tend more to connote quantitativeness, whether literally or figuratively. Giving of one's best tends to take more of a qualitative connotation. It is certainly true that
Nov 18	answered	Which one is correct, “best wishes to you” or “best wishes for you”?
Nov 18	answered	“Left as an exercise for the reader” vs. “to the reader”
Nov 18	answered	-ship vs. -hood
Nov 17	comment	Why is “definitely” so frequently typoed? An ENT doc would probably find it interesting to compare such a misspelling distribution as in the OP, with a similar distribution of nasal and otic syndromes amoung an English speaking population sample
Nov 17	suggested	suggested edit on Why is “definitely” so frequently typoed?
Nov 17	answered	Why is “definitely” so frequently typoed?
Nov 16	answered	“Practice/practise” and “licence/license”
Nov 16	answered	Adjective for “terrified yet calm and capable”
Nov 16	answered	Looking for idiom/expression to describe an instance where one makes something seem better than it really is
Oct 28	revised	How did “sinister”, the Latin word for “left-handed”, get its current meaning? added 263 characters in body
Oct 28	answered	How did “sinister”, the Latin word for “left-handed”, get its current meaning?
Oct 28	comment	Is it poor style to use adverbs ending in “ly” in formal writing? I think the concept your suggestion seems to miss is the one called "standards and practices" that guides all publishing. To write as if speaking conversationally (to the level of readers) as opposed to grammatically is a development long in the rhetorical making. And, for what it is worth, with quite obvious success.
Oct 28	answered	Is it poor style to use adverbs ending in “ly” in formal writing?
Oct 21	comment	“Had better” — what is the meaning of this grammatically? PS I only found this Q & A because I was searching for something related, and yet unrelated (perhaps an idiom, perhaps not, I will let you know....)
Oct 21	comment	“Had better” — what is the meaning of this grammatically? ...other than that original questioner, or someone trusted, (watch this)...had best...go back and remove the initial tags and, then, supersede them with the tag, idiom.
Oct 21	comment	“Had better” — what is the meaning of this grammatically? The question is a good one to demostrate what an idiomatic expresssion is (a concept that sometimes seems to run far afield on this site and elsewere). "Had better"...[something] is an idiom (essentally, short-hand, mostly oral or written-dialog means of expressing (in this case) a necessary propostion (in imperative mood); one of those ways of speaking that must be inculcated by rote; and which has no formal grammatical context or precedent...hence, is idomatic (remember that definition)...hence also, nothing more need be said...other than... [next comment]
Oct 21	comment	“Were gone” vs. “had gone” A verb, loosely speaking, in the sense that is stands in lieu of a dropped, definite or indefinite article or adjective. See comment in answer below. As intimated there, no harms comes from thinking of it as a verb so long as that is not generalized to "any ol" preposition object; or for the purpose of sentence parsing (diagramming)